Concerns raised over potential environmental disaster of £76.5m relief road

A senior councillor has warned of a potential ‘environmental disaster’ if a £76.5m relief road is built over the contaminated land of a former oil refinery in Trafford. The vice-chair of the authority’s scrutiny committee, Coun John Holden, voiced concern the controversial scheme for the Carrington Relief Road could be ‘opening up a Pandora’s box’.

The plan to link the ‘isolated’ areas of Partington and Carrington to Timperley and Altrincham with the new road parallel to the A6144 is seen as key ahead of the development of 5,000 new homes. It is included in the Greater Manchester strategic plan for the next 17 years - Places for Everyone (PfE). A planning application for the new road is expected to be brought before Trafford’s planning committee within the next 10 months. If approved, it will go through the former Shell Carrington Petrochemical facilit

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